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Title: Quality Assurance Manager Location: Chennai, India Department: Trimble Cloud Platform (DTO) Summary: We are looking for a trustworthy, proactive, and inspiring engineering leader to manage the QA team in Chennai. This position is an excellent

Title: Quality Assurance Manager Location: Chennai, India Department: Trimble Cloud Platform (DTO) Summary: We are looking for a trustworthy, proactive, and inspiring engineering leader to manage the QA team in Chennai. This position is an excellent opportunity to lead a core engineering team responsible for certifying one of Trimble's significant digital transformation efforts. To be successful in this position, you should have exceptional foresight, solid engineering background, good leadership skills and be pragmatic on your day-to-day operations. You will have the knack for handling complexity with ease through matured decision making and thoughtful leadership. Ideally, you will have proof of your supervisory and engineering skills and an appreciation for building high quality teams through trust, ownership and empowerment. Responsibilities: Drive the overall planning and execution of QA efforts and other related projects. Provide technical guidance throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation and delivery phases. Coach, mentor, and manage a team or teams of software engineers. Work closely with the Product management team and ensure alignment of business objectives. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to enable successful integration and adoption. Determine the need for training and talent development. Provide clear and concise expectations to engineering teams. Stay abreast of tools, technologies and industry developments relevant to the work of the teams. Build a working environment that is centered around transparency, trust and psychological safety. Qualifications: Academic background - Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Science, related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience. Foundational Software skills - Should have started as a programmer and grown into technical management roles with at least 3 years of hands-on technical management with a minimum industry experience of 10-12 years. Other Software skills - Experience building cloud native SaaS applications, well-versed in API ecosystem, have high value for engineering best practices, software quality, continuous development and DevOps principles. Project management - Experience in Agile project management from planning to execution. Communication - Exposure to working with cross cultural and globally distributed teams, ensure transparency and set stakeholder expectations through clear and concise communication. Organizational skills - Should be comfortable navigating through uncertainties and guide the teams effectively, be purpose driven and a collaborative personality altogether. Career planning - Should take pride in setting up the engineers for success through proper guidance and career planning activities. Leadership skills - Should possess high leadership qualities (around trust, transparency and empathy) to build a highly successful and quality team.